... and the ripples are waves of sensory perception seen in an EEG reading of cortical activity. When the pump is on and moving at different speeds, the ripples on the surface of the pond are active and take on different coherent patterns; w...

... of consciousness. By deconstructing systems of perception and memory, Psychedelic Information Theory quantifies the limits of expanded consciousness and describes the methods by which psychedelics alter consciousness, create new information, and a...

... diverse fields of pharmacology, shamanism, and perception. As a succinct yet comprehensive formal analysis of hallucination and shamanic ritual, Psychedelic Information Theory (PIT) is destined to become the modern textbook on psychedelic phenomen...

... generate information by destabilizing linear perception to promote nonlinear states of consciousness; that these states generate complex nonlinear amplifications of initial conditions provided by set and setting; that these states increase in no...

... input and prefrontal attentional mechanisms. perception and conscious experience may be based on such assemblies and sensory input to thalamic nuclei plays merely a constraining role in their formation. In schizophrenia, the ability of sensory i...

... Donoghue 1993), and in parietal areas engaged in perception with that in frontal areas engaged in planning strategies for action (Tononi et al. 1992; Lumer et al. 1997). Corticocortical connections undoubtedly play a prominent part here as well but ...

... real-time binding of sensation to multisensory perception, affective behavior, and the process of consciousness.
5-HT2A receptor mechanics
The 5-HT2A receptor is a G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR), which means it does not activate ion channels ...

... psychoactive substances that powerfully alter perception, mood, and a host of cognitive processes. They are considered physiologically safe and do not produce dependence or addiction. Their origin predates written history, and they were employed ...

This is a simple schematic of human cognitive workflow that follows perceptual signal through the brain. Starting at the left with the two inputs (audio and visual) you can chart the flow of signal through the various processing levels until you ulti...

... to people who have destabilized linear perception and can parse environmental data in novel, nonlinear ways.
In accounts of mysticism and madness God only speaks to people in states of highly nonlinear destabilization: deprivation, psych...

... information via destabilization of multisensory perception.1 Similarly, shamanic therapy is the production of spontaneous cellular organization via destabilization of metabolic homeostasis. An M.D. may prescribe a specific therapy to treat a specif...

... dynamics and how they apply to psychedelic perception.
Nonlinear Systems
[fig]1;1[/fig]Nonlinear systems can be defined in terms of the complexity of output in proportion to input. The output of changes in a linear system are simple and ca...

... how neurochemical stimulation results in direct perception. The visions are the result of the molecule interacting with activity within your brain, not spirits emitting external waves on a higher-dimensional frequency that only you can perceive (on...

... is still no appropriate model for
textures. The perception of textures as opposed to edges
depends upon local but not pointwise properties. However,
there is no predefined neighborhood size over which
textures can be analyzed. This has motivated...

The visible spectrum is the portion of the electromagnetic spectrum that is visible to (can be detected by) the human eye. Electromagnetic radiation in this range of wavelengths is called visible light or simply light. A typical human eye will respon...

... information within human consciousness. Human perception is limited by the capacity of sense organs (Fig. 1); the speed and architecture of the neural network; and the number of distinct perceptions the brain can analyze at any one time. Despite ...

... examination of the mechanisms underlying perception. In the peripheral drift illusion special drift patterns appear to move although they are static. During fixation small involuntary eye movements generate retinal image slips which need to ...